Bellini-induced Brain Freeze

Out with the old, in with the new Don't get me wrong! I cannot possibly complain about 2006. 2006 was amazing, fantastic. Health and happiness: the two things we predictably wish upon everyone every year...well, this year was full of all that. Two trips in one year! I hope I can keep that up. :) New babies all around me. Everyone is getting better job opportunities. Everyone has been healthy. Of course, there are always things that could be better but I'm not going to be ungrateful for everything we've had this year. Here's hoping we all have an even better 2007! PS: Yes, I'm home on a Saturday night. No, I'm not sick but I am exhausted. I even had a nap this afternoon! Holiday time with the familia is like one crazy marathon.

"...would you run to me if somebody hurt you... "...even if that somebody was me?" (I hope I did well by Mrs S with, hopefully, the proper use of grammar and punctuation in there.) So that's a line from a song for you. TLC, Prince, take your pick. Just smile and nod if you don't follow me...the line goes along with today's topic of discussion. At least in my Leah-world it does. I do not understand people who make someone their entire world. One. Person. They just latch on and make the other person into their life. They're joined at the hip forever and ever, amen. Or at least until something awful tears them apart. Maybe I never will understand it. Am I missing some romantic fairytale element in my DNA? Am I, as Daisy is prone to describing herself, "the guy in the relationship?" Once a guy tried to swoop in and infiltrate my circle of friends soon after I introduced him to the group. MY friends . I guess I'm not so good with sha...

Nice job if you can get it... I did quite a bit of my Christmas shopping online this year. And if I didn't do it online, you can bet I went on a weekday off to a lesser-shopped mall. Every year it gets worse; they don't have the size/color you're looking for, there are lineups as far as the eye can see, your arms ache from carrying all your bags, your patience wears thin trying to maneuver around the crowds. And to top it off this year, there is barely any staff. To be more specific, there is barely any knowledgeable staff who are willing to help . I mean, why should they inconvenience themselves by offering to help you? The city is so crazed for workers that A&W is offering workers twice what I made in my first job for flipping burgers! You can earn a good dime just standing around filling out a company's payroll. All the little slights add up. After paying for her purchase, the sales clerk walked away from the till and left my mom to reach over the counter and g...

*sigh* So this morning the Usual Suspects, Weird Kid's crew, and I went to various Sport Chek locations across the city to get our tickets for the New Year's Eve game. Or so I thought . I would have never guessed that I would be denied. Weird Kid and friends have had such great success nabbing tickets for all the other games we've attended. Heck, I had tickets given to me for Christmas at the office Christmas party. Whodathunk I would not be going to the NYE game. I was so picturing myself at that game with all my friends and family, the thought of not being in the Saddledome on that evening was a faraway joke. Latina and I lined up half an hour before store opening and were 4 people away from getting tickets. Weird Kid and friends chose a Sport Chek with the shortest line and had the tickets run out one person ahead of them in line. Civic got to his store shortly after they opened and they were already sold out. Apparently people had started lining up since 6 in t...

On the Map Slowly (but hopefully surely...?) I'm getting back into the blogging swing of things. Latest tweak, obviously, is my new travel map. Not done "dotting" everything, but clearly most of my travelling has been to North America thus far. And it's beginning to look a LOT like Christmas...

Bringing you up to speed Though really it's for my own recollection more than anything. :) Ang and her man got married! baby sis is now considered an adult all across the globe! Daisy dragged me to a Ben Lee show and in my own state of disbelief I stood behind a pillar all night staring at my hand (which looked gorgeous and slim that night, by the way, I can't explain it) Another girl who got dragged to the show was kind enough to ask if I was ok. After some fun compassionate conversation (she was invited to the show by a couple of Australian guys, though she paid for her own ticket...at least I was in there gratis courtesy of Daisy) it turns out she thought I was high yet miserable. :) That became the dawn of the blee-show. During Flag-girl's birthday we met some British and Welsh guys. I thought they worked at a cannery. Consensus was they were in the British army. Daisy, knowing her, went and had a good snog with one of them and as fate would have it, so did I. ...